Abstract
<p style="text-align:justify">The formed primary level and dynamic and sustainable development of technological competence provides quality management of teaching activities, increases the efficiency of the educational process, accelerates the achievement of pedagogical goals. Delphi expert assessment technique is increasingly used in the paradigm of pedagogy. Due to the set of advantages and objectivity of assessments, it has become the dominant method of this study. The objective of the study is to determine the current level of manifestation of technological competencies, as well as generalized prospects for development and improvement of the identified level within the selected group of freelance teachers using the technology of independent expert assessments –the Delphi method. In general, the following methods were used in the current study: methods of data collection and coordination, anonymous brainstorming, Delphi expert assessment technique, statistical and mathematical processing of results through Delphi formulas, comparative method, generalisations. The diversified approach to the interpretation of the technological competence of faculty members allowed determining: a) the level of faculty members’ knowledge of modern educational technologies at 89.1%; b) activity-practical aspect of training at 83.0%; c) dissonance between the theoretical and empirical level of teacher training and the algorithm for fulfilling the potential in practice at 21.5%; d) mastery of individual creative technologies for the organisation of an effective educational process at 55.9%; e) forecasted development of technological competencies of faculty members in the 5-year perspective under the condition of application of special control and skill trainings at 50.7%. Conclusion of the study is that according to the arithmetic mean of experts’ assessments of differentiated levels of technological competence, the overall level was 75.1%. The average result of the initial student survey on the estimating of the teachers’ technological competence was 69.7%. The difference of 5.4% between the data allows stating that both methods were relevant in this particular case.</p>
Highlights
Features of the modern era of technology affect the fundamental professional competencies of specialists in various fields
Technological competence is manifested in: 1) the correct definition of stages and algorithms of educational activities; 2) harmonious management of pedagogical processes; 3) ensuring mutually beneficial constructive interaction between the subjects of the educational process; 4) the desire to adhere to a range of patterns and principles of organisation of the educational process with students; 5) readiness to design and implement the initially set goals, structuring the content of teaching, methods and didactic tools to solve the problems of pragmatically organised pedagogical communication and pedagogical activities of teacher educators in general
At the end of the first round of the survey, in order to speed up consensus decisions and optimally find common solutions to the criteria that remained unmet, the following was conducted: 1) a matrix of generalised comments was previously sent to all experts for review (Table 4); 2) after that, an Incognito chat was initiated in Telegram for simultaneous and anonymous exchange of the following comments on the issues under discussion, expression of ideas, etc
Summary
Features of the modern era of technology affect the fundamental professional competencies of specialists in various fields. Significant fluctuations in the assessment of the technological side of teacher activity have urged the need to clarify the issue within the expert group with the involvement of a wider range of experts on technological competencies, as well as prospects and ways to improve them under the influence of traditional and innovative forms of learning. It was the requirement of an expert approach to assessing the problem that initially prompted the idea of applying the Delphi technique of its elaboration
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